Enhanced productivity is the principal reason for the increased confidence, which is generally nation-wide.
Cloud, Small Business, Software
Zoho Canadian SMB survey shows optimism moving forward
by Mark Cox •
Cloud
Backup, Cloud
Veeam back to business as usual with partners at VeeamON
by Mark Cox •
While partners were happy to be back to face-to-face contact with Veeam, policies will continue pretty much as before, with emphasis on things like services and subscription which have recently proven to be very successful.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Security
Fortinet expands professional services, partner ease of use with changes to Engage Partner Program
by Mark Cox •
A major theme running through the announcements is to make it easier for more types of partners to engage in higher level value-add activities with Fortinet.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Software
Acumatica channel VP CJ Boguszewski looks to fine tune company’s long-standing channel program
by Mark Cox •
Acumatica has a 100% channel strategy, but that makes it even more imperative to maximize the efficiency of their partners, and Boguszewski has some plans in this regard.
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Channel Communities, Cloud, Storage
Dell Global Channel Chief Dagher touts channel momentum, asks partners to go all in
by Mark Cox •
Rola Dagher, a Canadian who came to the Dell channel job from running Cisco Canada, also singled out the Canadian channel for its recent work.
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Cloud, Storage
Dell upgrades storage portfolio and plugs it into multi-cloud theme on Day Two of Dell Technologies World
by Mark Cox •
On Day Two, Dell emphasized storage enhancements in their PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex portfolios, but also stressed these were not standalone announcements, and were part of the company’s multi-cloud vision laid out on the previous day.
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Cloud
Dell fleshes in more details of their multi-cloud strategy
by Mark Cox •
On Day One of Dell Technologies World, the keynote address laid out both Dell’s multi-cloud strategy and the products from the show that specifically advanced that strategy.
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Cloud, Software, Virtualization
HP integrates newly acquired Teradici technology to create HP Anyware for digital workspaces
by Mark Cox •
The new solution, now available in beta, integrates Teradici CAS and HP ZCentral Remote Boost into a new HP Anywhere offering that will provide secure access to digital workspaces from any mix of infrastructure to any device.
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Cloud, Distribution
Pax8, AWS sign distribution deal to bring AWS into Pax8 solutions
by Mark Cox •
For the time being, the deal is only in North America and will not be expanded soon into the other big public clouds, even through Pax8 has a long-standing and close relationship with Microsoft.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Unified Communications
LiveVox continues to build out fledgling channel strategy with launch of ACTivate channel program
by Mark Cox •
While LiveVox has been around for years, their channel is really less than a year old, and the new partner program is designed both to attract quality new partners and to get new and existing partners up to speed.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Storage
Lightbits brings in Charla Bunton-Johnson to drive channel-first strategy for software-defined NVMe pioneer
by Mark Cox •
The channel is relatively new in Lightbits’ strategy, but the new channel leader was brought in to scale growth in accordance with what has become a channel-first strategy.
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Cloud, Hardware
Despite rise of cloud, hardware remains largest component of IT budgets
by Mark Cox •
A new global study by Spiceworks Ziff Davis into the state of server and client computing devices has found that despite the rise of the cloud, computer hardware still accounts for the largest portion of overall tech spending, at 30% of overall IT budgets.
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Cloud, Storage
Wasabi expects big push in Canada from opening of first Canadian data centre
by Mark Cox •
Wasabi’s overall business has posted very strong growth over the last several years, but the lack of a Canadian data centre has created some data sovereignty issues that, until now, have limited their growth here.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Software
ServiceNow San Diego release emphasizes increased productivity from Next Experience interface redesign
by Mark Cox •
San Diego also upgrades the Now platform’s RPA bots, and introduces three new out-of-the-box solutions for specific verticals
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Cloud, Data Centre, Distribution
Addition of Aruba to GreenLake, new cloud services, highlight flurry of HPE GreenLake enhancements
by Mark Cox •
Twelve new GreenLake services were introduced, eight of which are modular channel-friendly services from HPE Aruba, two of which are brand new GreenLake services, and the final two are upgrades of services announced last year.
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Cloud, Security
Skyhigh Security becomes second ex-McAfee property spun out of Symphony Technology Group
by Mark Cox •
Skyhigh Security will be deeply focused on the Security Service Edge [SSE] while Trellix, spun out of Symphony earlier this year will be focused on the EDR [Extended Detection and Response] business. Gee Rittenhouse, who was previously the Senior Vice President/GM of Cisco’s Security Business Group, becomes Skyhigh’s CEO.
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Cloud, Data Management, Partnerships
Vcinity launches partnership with Dell to take their hybrid cloud solution to market through Dell’s OEM Engineered Solutions program
by Mark Cox •
Vcinity offers a unique solution in the marketplace which doesn’t move data to the cloud, but provides the same effect while allowing the data to remain in place.
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Cloud, Security
Armorblox fully integrates its Natural Language Understanding within its DLP in major upgrade
by Mark Cox •
Armorblox has expanded its use of Natural Language Understanding from the solution’s core engine to specific business workflows, like preventing data loss in Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Exchange and Google Workspace.
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Backup, Cloud
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 adds self-service restore portal and cloud object storage integrations
by Mark Cox •
Veeam is the market leader in this space, but they see it as an almost complete green fields opportunity since their share is 8.5 million users in an area Microsoft estimates at 300 million today, growing to 500 million in 2025.
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Cloud, DevOps, Software
Zoho unifies BI and integration platform within next-gen low code Zoho Creator Platform
by Mark Cox •
This is the sixth major redo of Zoho’s low code platform for both developers and Line of Business users, but the changes are so significant that the company says it is essentially a next-generation product.
